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enThe First Chapter of Wired with Louis Hahnhttps://psychology.as.uky.edu/first-chapter
<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://psychology.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Wired-Louis-Hahn.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="https://psychology.as.uky.edu/users/njdewa2">Nathan DeWall</a> is a professor in the <a href="https://psychology.as.uky.edu/">Psychology Department</a> and has also served as one of the faculty co-directors of <a href="https://wired.as.uky.edu/">Wired</a> since its start in 2011. He sat down with Wired alum Louis Hahn to talk about his experiences in the living learning program and how it has helped shaped his college experience.</p>
<p>This podcast was produced by <a href="https://www.as.uky.edu/users/crhi224">Casey Hibbard</a>.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/college-art-and-sciences" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">college of art and sciences</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/wired" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">wired</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/living-learning-communities" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">living learning communities</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/nathan-dewall" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">nathan dewall</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tag/biology" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">biology</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tags/psychology" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">psychology</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 12:06:48 +0000njdewa2276987 at https://psychology.as.uky.eduUndergraduate Assistants Help Freshmen Transition to Life as STEMCatshttps://psychology.as.uky.edu/undergraduate-assistants-help-freshmen-transition-life-stemcats
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>(Nov. 20, 2014) — As University of Kentucky freshmen settle into life as college students, a new resource on campus has been helping them adjust to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs, known for difficult coursework. Undergraduate instructional assistants (UIAs) within one of the university's newest <a href="http://www.uky.edu/housing/undergraduate/llp" target="_blank">Living Learning Programs</a>, <a href="http://www.uky.edu/housing/undergraduate/llp/stemcats-community">STEMCats</a>, use their past experiences to mentor incoming UK students.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">College of Arts and Sciences</a> recently produced a podcast about the STEMCats community, featuring many STEMCats UIAs explaining what they enjoy about the program and their connections with younger STEM students.</p>
<p>"You get to help them succeed academically, socially, personally and just as a student, help them move to where they want to be," said one UIA in the podcast.</p>
<p><img alt="STEMCats undergraduate instructional assistants. " src="/sites/default/files/resize/stemcats_uias_141119_edited-450x300.jpg" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; width: 450px; height: 300px; margin: 5px; float: right;" width="450" height="300" />Listen to what more UIAs had to say about STEMCats <a href="https://www.as.uky.edu/podcasts/stemcats-assisting-science" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>STEMCats provides freshmen with many unique opportunities, including participation in research at the beginning of their college career, and connections with peers, upperclassmen and professors before classes ever begin.</p>
<p>Recognizing the value of peers as role models and resources, STEMCats utilizes sophomore, junior and senior STEM majors as UIAs. UIAs are not strictly tutors, but serve as a bridge between professors and students, meeting with students once or twice a week, and mentoring them based on their own experiences in similar majors.</p>
<p>STEMCats, led by <a href="https://bio.as.uky.edu/user/627" target="_blank">Department of Biology Chair Vincent Cassone</a>, began this semester after UK was awarded a $1.9 million grant by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in June. The HHMI grant, also led by Cassone as the principal investigator, was awarded to improve retention of students in the STEM disciplines. Launching as a pre-fall freshman academic, research and professional-development residential program, STEMCats welcomed UK and Bluegrass Community and Technical College students to campus a week before the official opening of the university, and they attended a special orientation program.</p>
<p>In the fall of 2015, STEMCats will move into its permanent home in <a href="http://www.uky.edu/housing/undergraduate/places-to-live/woodland_glen4" target="_blank">Woodland Glen IV</a>, a new residence hall located on south campus, and will foster even more engagement within its community.</p>
<p>One UIA featured in the College of Arts and Sciences' podcast spoke about what he expected STEMCats students to gain from living in the same residence hall. </p>
<p>"Aside from making great friends that are going to probably last all through college, you're going to get a really nice help with classes because, I mean, chances are if you're struggling through bio (biology) or MA 113, the person right down the hall from you is probably stuck on the same problem, and that's a big benefit."</p>
<p>STEMCats is supported by the College of Arts &amp; Sciences' departments of <a href="http://bio.as.uky.edu/">biology</a>, <a href="http://chem.as.uky.edu/">chemistry</a>, <a href="https://ees.as.uky.edu/">earth and environmental sciences</a>, <a href="http://math.as.uky.edu/">mathematics</a>, <a href="http://pa.as.uky.edu/">physics and astronomy</a>, <a href="https://psychology.as.uky.edu/">psychology</a> and <a href="http://stat.as.uky.edu/">statistics</a>; the <a href="http://pharmacy.mc.uky.edu/depts/ps/">Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences</a>; the <a href="http://physiology.med.uky.edu/">Department of Physiology</a>; the <a href="http://pharmns.med.uky.edu/">Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences</a>; and <a href="http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/natural_sciences/">Bluegrass Community and Technical College's Division of Natural Sciences</a>. </p>
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<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://psychology.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/It-Runs-in-the-Family-OLD.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p dir="ltr">The A&amp;S <a href="http://wired.as.uky.edu">Wired</a> Living Learning Community, housed in Champions Court II, gives freshman students the opportunity to create lasting bonds within the dorm and within the classroom. A&amp;S Wired allows students to shape their own education experience through innovative, technology-driven courses taken alongside fellow Wired students. In this podcast, we speak with two A&amp;S Wired Alumni, <a href="http://www.as.uky.edu/users/clap222">Connor Appleman</a> and Angel Ho, and their younger siblings who also joined the program, Daniel Appleman and Jenni Ho.</p>
<div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">This podcast was produced by </span><a href="https://hive.as.uky.edu/users/crhi224" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Casey Hibbard</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">. </span></div>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/wired" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">wired</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/students" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">students</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/living-learning-communities" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">living learning communities</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:38:33 +0000clap222211317 at https://psychology.as.uky.eduPeer Mentors: The Heart of the Living Learning Programhttps://psychology.as.uky.edu/peer-mentors-heart-living-learning-program
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>by Andrea Richard</em></p>
<p>(Nov. 12, 2013) — Designed to offer students an opportunity to live and learn together in an integrated academic residential environment, living learning programs, or LLPs are a “dynamic residential experience [that] offer specialized programming, interactions with UK faculty and staff; and a supportive community that focuses on student success,” according to the university’s <a href="https://www.uky.edu/Housing/undergraduate/" target="_blank">Undergraduate Housing &amp; Residence Life website.</a> There are currently 14 LLPs at UK, and a part of what makes them successful is the role of the peer mentor.</p>
<p>Hired in the spring, peer mentors train in both the spring and fall semesters and continue throughout the school year. They are dedicated to ensuring student success at the university and helping students adjust to life on the college campus. The peer mentor’s role is be to the ultimate resource that students wish to have when stepping foot on campus. In the process, relationships are formed and friendships are established.</p>
<p><img alt="Peer mentors" src="/sites/default/files/resize/peer_mentors-300x225.jpg" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; width: 300px; height: 225px; margin: 5px; float: left;" width="300" height="225" />Typically, peer mentors are sophomores who have completed the living learning program during the previous year. These students encourage freshmen to get involved on campus, develop effective study habits, utilize on-campus resources and communicate with their professors. These students are also responsible for helping to organize community programs, both social and academic, in collaboration with the residential advisors (RAs).</p>
<p>Becca Boom, a mentor in the College of Arts and Sciences <a href="http://wired.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">A&amp;S Wired</a> program, joined an LLP to feel connected to campus. She returned her sophomore year to the mentor because of the “sense of community and family [she] felt within the A&amp;S Wired program.”</p>
<p>Boom loved her experience in Keeneland Hall so much that she returned for the 2013-14 school year so that the incoming freshmen would have the same community experience she had during her freshman year.</p>
<p>Boom strives to shape the A&amp;S Wired program by creating events that are targeting students to mingle and engage in conversation. She achieves this goal by being present in the residence hall and letting students know she is there for them despite their issue.</p>
<p>Icyana Abner, also a mentor in the Wired program, returned her sophomore year “to be a part of a bigger community where people actually [come] together and care.”</p>
<p>Abner’s goal for the program is to connect herself with the students and for the students to be able to connect with each other. Answering student questions, hosting events and being available to the students is her way of shaping the A&amp;S Wired community.</p>
<p>When asked what the biggest reward of their job is, both girls responded, “helping freshmen become acquainted with campus and seeing how they form friendships within the A&amp;S Wired program.” </p>
<p>Kathryn Macon, a freshman in the program, finds Boom's mentorship very helpful.</p>
<p>“Becca is always there when I need her," she said. "She gives good advice, helps with homework, and is a great friend and mentor.”</p>
<p>Elisha Ellis, a junior peer mentor in the First Generation LLP, said meeting so many different people was what caused her to become a peer mentor.</p>
<p>“I use to be in a shell,” Ellis said. “Now I’m outgoing.”</p>
<p>Unlike most peer mentors, Ellis’ first year in the program was serving as a mentor. A first generation student, she had not heard about the living learning program until her sophomore year. Ellis became aware of the program through interaction with other first generation students.</p>
<p>Ellis says she is constantly striving to be a good example and to encourage students to persevere even in times of struggle.</p>
<p>Kaylee Hicks, a freshman in the honors LLP, said her mentor Tolu Odukoya teaches her to budget time and make studying for courses more manageable and less overwhelming. Since they are both interested in medicine, Hicks said Odukoya “shows her the ropes.”</p>
<p>“He is conscious of the influence he has on everyone in the dorm," Hicks said. "If he sees someone distressed, he will talk to them, and befriend those who need friends. Having a peer mentor is at its base a friendship. It’s hard to relate to someone if the friendship isn’t there.”</p>
<div>Read more about LLPs at UK: <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/content/wired-living-learning-program-education-digital-age" target="_blank">Arts and Science (A&amp;S) Wired Program</a>, the <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/content/engineering-students-unite-and-conquer" target="_blank">Engineering Residential College</a>, <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/content/global-scholars-community-helps-train-world-ready-business-leaders" target="_blank">Global Scholars Community,</a> <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/content/creativity-takes-center-stage-roselle-hall" target="_blank">Fine Arts</a>, <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-ags-living-learning-community-thriving" target="_blank">Agriculture</a>, <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uks-healthcare-residential-college-provides-community-and-opportunity-students" target="_blank">Healthcare </a>and <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/content/honors-living-learning-community-unites-students-passion-learning" target="_blank">Honors Community</a>.</div>
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<p>Celebrating its 25th year on campus in fall 2014, the <a href="http://www.uky.edu/Housing/undergraduate/llp2.html" target="_blank">Living Learning Program</a> at the University of Kentucky provides students with an environment to learn where they live and to live where they learn. The Division of Student Affairs Office of Residence Life, creators of the program, collaborated with academic and other student success partners to complement the classroom experience. Through Living Learning Communities and Residential Colleges, UK offers students an opportunity to live and learn together in an integrated academic residential environment. This dynamic residential experience offers specialized programming, interactions with UK faculty and staff, and a supportive community that focuses on student success. </p>
<p>The program has grown exponentially in recent years with 965 students participating in 13 programs this fall. Six more programs will be added in fall 2014, nine times more than in 2008. For more information, visit <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/content/students-live-and-learn-uk" target="_blank">http://uknow.uky.edu/content/students-live-and-learn-uk</a>, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UKLivingLearningProgram" target="_blank">LLP Facebook page</a>, or contact Trisha Clement Montgomery, Assistant Director for Academic Initiatives, at <a href="mailto:tclem2@uky.edu">tclem2@uky.edu</a>. </p>
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<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://psychology.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/9-13-A%26S-Wired-OLD.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>by Sarah Geegan</em></p>
<p><img alt="Students at A&amp;amp;S Wired" src="/sites/default/files/resize/wired%20students-350x233.jpg" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; width: 350px; height: 233px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin: 3px; float: right;" width="350" height="233" />Students of the 21st century are digital natives; they have never experienced the world without the Internet, they're fluent in social media and <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">they navigate disparate streams of information to solve problems through advancing technology.</span></p>
<p>It is at this intersection of academic, social and technological networks that <a href="http://wired.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">A&amp;S Wired Residential College</a> provides students with a 21st century educational experience.</p>
<p>A&amp;S Wired is part of the <a href="http://www.uky.edu/" target="_blank">University of Kentucky's Living Learning Program (LLP)</a>, a growing initiative that involves partnerships between the <a href="http://www.uky.edu/Housing/undergraduate/llp2.html" target="_blank">Office of Residence Life</a> and various academic and non-academic units across campus. The Living Learning Program provides students the opportunity to live and learn with other students in an environment that takes education beyond the traditional classroom.</p>
<p>A&amp;S Wired students work through built-in academic and social networks involving peer mentors who are Wired alumni and faculty directors from different disciplines. They live in and take courses in Keeneland Hall, ranging from a 10-week course that emphasizes experiential learning, to a 16-week WRD (Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Media) UK Core course; these courses are capped at 25 students.</p>
<p>Wired is open to students of all majors. Courses cover a wide range of topics that expose students to UK’s broad offerings and to Wired faculty’s diverse research interests.</p>
<p>"At its most basic, A&amp;S Wired is a student-centered residential college designed to provide first-year students with a technology-rich, small liberal arts experience that promotes student success and retention," said faculty co-director <a href="https://gws.as.uky.edu/users/mcalca2" target="_blank">Cristina Alcalde</a>. "Wired positions students within the traditions of the liberal arts and harnesses the power of the digital age."</p>
<p>The program aims to provide first-year UK students with what Alcalde calls "a 2020 education" today, by emphasizing dynamic skill sets in a technology-rich environment. All A&amp;S Wired courses incorporate iPads, which each Wired participant receives upon entering the program.</p>
<p>"I believe that the purposely designed small and community settings and events, our unique courses, regular contact with faculty, our incredible peer mentors, and, of course, the use of iPads in all Wired courses set Wired aside and promote student success," Alcalde said.</p>
<p>In one A&amp;S Wired course titled, "Measuring Science," Professor <a href="https://pa.as.uky.edu/users/mjcava1" target="_blank">Mike Cavagnero</a> from the <a href="https://pa.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Physics and Astronomy</a>, taught students how to use an iPad to measure light and how fast it travels. For Alcalde's interdisciplinary courses, "Migration Stories" and "Violence and Peace," students produced final projects on those topics using their iPads to do academic research, record interviews and produce polished iMovies. </p>
<p><img alt="Dean Mark Kornbluh at A&amp;amp;S Wired" src="/sites/default/files/resize/kornbluh_1-300x200.jpg" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; width: 300px; height: 200px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin: 3px; float: left;" width="300" height="200" />The program also facilitates weekly "Coffee Chats," in which students interact with community and campus leaders in an informal setting. Last year the program featured Lexington Mayor Jim Gray among their guests. The <a href="https://history.as.uky.edu/users/kornbluh" target="_blank">dean of Arts and Sciences, Mark Kornbluh</a>, has been a guest each year, along with other faculty and community leaders. </p>
<p>The program has been successful both in retention and in growth. Wired opened in Fall 2011 with 177 students; this fall the program holds approximately 230. The retention rate for students in Wired has also been consistently above that of the university as a whole. From Fall 2011 to Fall 2012, for example, the Wired retention rate peaked at 93 percent; from Fall 2011 to Spring 2013, the Wired retention rate held steady at 92 percent.</p>
<p>"A&amp;S Wired is emblematic of the commitment within the College of Arts and Sciences to provide students with broad skill sets that incorporate the power of the digital age," Kornbluh said. " This residential community will prepare students for the future by developing flexible and dynamic skill sets, instilling social responsibility, and enhancing their ability and freedom to co-construct knowledge globally and digitally."</p>
<p>Celebrating its 25th year on campus in fall 2014, the <a href="http://www.uky.edu/Housing/undergraduate/llp2.html" target="_blank">Living Learning Program</a> at the University of Kentucky provides students with an environment to learn where they live and to live where they learn. The Division of Student Affairs Office of Residence Life, creators of the program, collaborated with academic and other student success partners to complement the classroom experience. Through Living Learning Communities and Residential Colleges, UK offers students an opportunity to live and learn together in an integrated academic residential environment. This dynamic residential experience offers specialized programming, interactions with UK faculty and staff, and a supportive community that focuses on student success. </p>
<p>The program has grown exponentially in recent years with 1,100 students participating in 13 programs this fall, a 21 percent growth over last year. Six more programs will be added in fall 2014, nine times more than in 2008. For more information, visit <a href="http://uknow.uky.edu/content/students-live-and-learn-uk" target="_blank">http://uknow.uky.edu/content/students-live-and-learn-uk</a>. Next Wednesday, Sept. 18, learn more about the Engineering Residential College.</p>
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<p>To view additional videos about living and learning at UK, visit this YouTube playlist:<a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vC9-Q8LFczrqJaZ70CeGluwq4D912xB" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vC9-Q8LFczrqJaZ70CeGluwq4D912xB</a>.</p>
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